burngreave.net

The burngreave.net  umbrella covers a number of different projects.

1.  Community Area Network.  We are developing a wireless based community area network in coordination with other groups in Sheffield.  For more infomation see http://bcan.burngreave.net
2. Volunteer PC support for the community at the PC Fixit  Cafe.  See http://www.burngreave.net/mailman/listinfo/cafe for more information
3. IT consultancy services / workers co-operative BITWork  
4. Community ISP services, hosting web sites and email for a number of organisations and bodies.
5. Email lists

Burngreave IT Partnership
Aims and Objectives

Minutes of the Burngreave New Housing Group can be found at:

http://www.burngreave.net/~housing/

There are also documents and links to Burngreave/Sheffield/national housing issues.

Articles and comments welcome.
Please email to:

housing@burngreave.net

Snapshot of the Rock Street / Verdon Street network, 08 May 2007.

OLSR Network Topology 10-April-2007

We've started moving the Burngreave Community Area Network to the Freifunk Firmware on the Linksys WRT54G family using OLSR routing protocol .

Here is a picture of the network topology around Verdon and Rock Street Areas of Pitsmoor

found this .. looks useful

http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/backup-rest.html

From Slashdot

" The internet is a lot like an information superhighway...

No, the Internet is NOT like a superhighway :-) From Usenet, 1994-ish:

"Think of the Internet as a highway."

There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know didley about the net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor.

Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the net. . .

A highway hundreds of lanes wide. Most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on ramps at every intersection. No signs. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions. Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a capital offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.

Started work on the Arbourthorne free wireless project. ( need to think of a catchier name ! )

Purchased 4 Linksys WRT54GL and started installing the freifunk firmware

Seems quite cool software. The OLSR daemon works nicely and creates the routes happily. Need to remember that the wireless interfaces must all be in the same subnet, adhoc, and have same essid for automatic meshing to work.

Just heard about this! http://www.lmhrsheffield.co.uk/ looks good, I look forward to hearing more of it, and getting the record.

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